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They are all valid criticisms except I would criticise the players more for the zonal marking issues because in the second half of last season they proved they could actually do it properly, didn't concede a set piece goal from February onwards and kept more clean sheets than everyone apart from Liverpool and City. It must be infuriating for Silva to have coached it into them properly only for it to go tits up again so far this season. The 4231 is a pile of wank and I wish we'd go 433 which was apparently his preferred formation at Watford. The 4231 was pretty much needed with Gueye and Sigurdsson two of the first names on the team sheet last season, but now we have a load of midfielders who would fall into the category of being decent in all departments that could play in a midfield three better than playing a specific DM or AM role, Gbamin, Gomes, Delph and Davies all fall into this category and I dont see why Sigurdsson couldn't do a job in a more flexible three man midfield. The substitutions I find hard to defend, I cant really remember him making real game changing substitutions. Usually he just makes straight swaps without changing a system that hasn't worked for 70 minutes. So yeah it sounds like I'd agree with them.

Heh, weird. After some questions, I was sure I'll get someone else as a result.

Stalking myself for attention.

It's probably been posted before. Probably even by myself, but posting it again is worth it. The Bonneville Bobber.

Saw this on reddit today... Lovely... @Bluewolf

Hate to be that guy that's probably being annoying but a few things: 1) many people would argue that the first vote wasn't democratic because the winning side broke electoral law. 2) people being able to change their mind is a pretty massive part of democracy. It's why we have elections every 4 years (typically). 3) the MPs campaigning for Remain threw tantrums because they were trying to get facts across while their Leave-campaigning colleagues were coming out with lies and fantasy (which we can now see) and not being held accountable by the media. 4) my personal view is that if you have a vote you should use it to vote for what you think is best for the country rather than withhold it out of some sort of principle because you don't like how they acted. God knows it won't be them that face the consequences of something bad happening to Britain because loads of people didn't vote the way they thought they should for the same reasons you're suggesting. It will be your friends, children and grandchildren who bear the brunt of it. And 5) I think we're all sick of hearing about Brexit in the news. However, in a democracy it is important for all of us to be educated to some extent and vote for what we believe is best for the nation when we get the opportunity. The best way to stop hearing about Brexit is to have it overturned in a second referendum if that's what the majority of people want because if we leave the EU we will be hearing about the fallout for decades to come, especially if it is a no deal Brexit, it will be in the news every day regardless of whether things go as badly as people say they will or not.

Look I apologise if you feel like I'm overlooking your arguments, but the bottom line is I find odd to be criticising Brands when he's one of the only people at the club who has done generally positive work over the past few years. I've made my points about what he's inherited and the fees he's managed to scrape together for the swathes of senior players of ours that aren't good enough to play for the first team. As for the players he's brought in, Digne for under £20m is an obvious good deal, Bernard was free, Mina was about £30m and the one where the jury is still out but he has been one of our better players so far this season. Not saying much perhaps but he cant be labelled a flop yet. Gomes, Iwobi, Gbamin all came for £25m-£30m which adds up, yes, but I'm afraid when the Koeman/Walsh era leaves you with so many first team players needed to replace the shit and the 31 year olds, you're not going to plug many of those gaps for less than that price. Delph was under £10m for an experienced body, Richarlison the big one at £45m which is a heft fee but he's 22, was our top scorer last season and is a regular for Brazil's national team. Moise Kean was just under £30m but he's 19 so its unreasonable to use that one as an investment that hasn't justified the outlay yet. If you look at it objectively it's hard to really find a crap bit of business in there. He's walked away from all of the proper panic buy deals like Zaha and Rojo even if it left us short handed at the back. Nearly all of the players he has signed as far as I'm concerned are at least decent and haven't been too expensive individually. The individual quality is there, just need them to get their fingers out and the manager to start getting the best out of them again. The reason we've spent so much is because Koeman and Walsh left such a pile of AIDs behind them. Going back to your point about Gueye, I think most people would consider £30m for a player the wrong side of 30 who wants to leave to be sensible business and I'm sure you'd see things the same way if it was your club, even if we are missing him on the pitch. Hopefully that answers all of your points. 4231 with two defensive midfielders just makes us too easy to shut down. Especially if the midfield two are Schneiderlin and Delph like the last few weeks who dont offer any attacking threat. Last season it was better with Gueye and Gomes because Gueye covers more ground defensively and Gomes can carry the ball forward and force an opposition's defensive midfielder or full back have to close him down and create space for someone else. I seem to remember him doing this particularly well in the Anfield derby at times. Lining up with Schneiderlin and Delph against teams like Liverpool or Man City makes sense but when we line up that way against Sheffield United at home it gets people pretty triggered and fair enough. It makes more sense in those games to leave Delph deep and play say Davies and Sigurdsson as two midfielders who can support the attack. Our last four managers wont change from this system, and when both Baines and Coleman would bomb forward to support the attack it was fine, but Digne, as good as he is in the final third, doesn't have the same pace as Baines had in his prime and Coleman's final ball has always been average, and now he also has less pace to commit to runs beyond the winger and be able to get back, so we need more from the midfield.

Same here...

It's most likely Lando's

Eh that's a bit touchy for someone just saying "I don't understand why they like him enough to have a banner." I think in circumstances where you've got a manager under fire for what's happening on the pitch... it's understandable to question whether the Director of Football (who presumably had a hand in hiring him? - though idk how the timing of them joining the blueshites) would be questioned. But like I said, on paper it looks like he's done a good job imo. But what happens on paper doesn't really matter as much as what's happening on the pitch.

Boys night out

Oh - haha. Basically I work with different Cyber Security companies, and I work to integrate their services into the client's environment. I create network diagrams for the client to see what (if any) of the hardware will have to go inside their network, and also work with the client to properly configure their Firewalls so that the correct ports are opened (and closed if their are unneeded ones open), so that the Security Company's service works to full efficiency.

Daniella Westbrook has definitely had a hard paper round.

Honestly, only once. And I clicked that my favourite social media is instagram, which is very unlike Seb, and still got that result. I defeated the laws of the game.

I got......

How many times did you complete it before you made your dream come true?

Timothée Chalamet is such a wonderful young actor. Looking forward to his future projects. Can't wait to see "The King" when it comes out on Netflix.

The mistake was putting The Fiend and Seth Rollins in a match against each other in the first place. A HIAC match is not the match to have when you want nobody to lose.

Sorry, did I not heap enough praise on it???

There's always something magical when you watch Ben Howard perform live.

Apparently this random bloke keeps photoshopping himself into Kendall Jenners photos...

The Simpsons predicted another thing

The new upcoming Indian Scout motorcycle lineup:

https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/11656762/formula-1-in-2019-which-driver-are-you-take-our-personality-quiz A bit of silly fun. I got...

That looks ok...